So everyone always talks about how crappy Sugar n’ Cream yarn is (”dishcloth cotton”, if you will), but when I saw all the fun bright colors they had at Michael’s the other day, I got overly excited and bought some - bright orange, bright blue, pale yellow, and bright red.  I bought them with awesome cotton slouchy summer hats in mind, and hey, if they turned out crappy I was only wasting $1.69 a hat.

So I made this awesome hat out of the bright orange, and it turned out GREAT!  I can understand why you wouldn’t make, say, a sweater out of this yarn, but it’s great for hats.  The coolest part of this hat is that it’s worked inside out…the “outside” is ribbed, but then you turn it “inside out” and it’s all awesome and bumpy!

The back is the best part…

Look what I found floating around Craigslist (for free, none the less)!

 I think she’s secretly a model!

Her name is Emma, and her interests include licking, fingers, and licking fingers.

Chris is thrilled to have his leg attacked

What does a really nerdy person knit? A handspun dice bag for role playing, of course…and then, apparently, she names it after her World of Warcraft character

My Erinndaii bag:

I also made some socks from some sock yarn remnants Dani handed off to me…and everyone informed me that they look like bacon.  Hence, the Baconator Baby Socks!

I can’t quit making these! They’re so freaking tiny and adorable…I have a horrible addiction to miniature cute things :X

I’m (kinda) using Dani’s pattern, except I’m doing a figure-8 increase toe instead of a short-row toe (I avoid as many short rows as possible).

So this was my first pair…

And these ones I made today, in the most AWESOME sock yarn ever…which Dani practically threw at me when I expressed the slightest interest.  I believe her words where “It’s the ugliest freaking yarn ever.”  :P

I haven’t posted for a while…I’ve been pretty down lately, and have been spending most of my time in bed knitting/watching Miyazaki films/playing Warcraft.

So I’ve been growing my hair out for a while, and it’s been driving me insane. The other night I was so upset that I was *thisclose* to cutting it back into my faux hawk that I had a while back. But I put the scissors down and did something else to keep my mind off of it, and the weirdest thing happened…I looked in the mirror later that night and realized that it IS long enough to start styling it into my Amelie bob! I hadn’t put any real product in it for a while because I was so frustrated, but as soon at I fluffed it up with some hairspray, I realized that it’s almost long enough (and definitely long enough to fake it until it’s really long enough)!

So yeah, it’s kind of weird that something that dumb would make me feel better, but hey!

So I haven’t crocheted anything in about seven or eight years…but I made myself re-learn (kinda) so I could make this!

He would have been better with safety eyes, but since I didn’t have any I just embroidered the whole eye on.

Next I’m going to make the big blue Totoro so he won’t be lonely

So I finished the actual bag part of my curbing bag today, and grafted/kitchenered the bottom together. I don’t have any fabric to line it yet, and I am really not looking forward to making icord for the handle. I may wait (although seeing as I have negative money, it could be an extraordinary amount of time) until I can get one of those little round loom things to make it. I also don’t think I have enough of any matching/coordinating color to make a single-colored long icord. I guess I can just keep attaching new colors as I run out and they can just be random and rainbow…

Anyhow, here’s what’s done -

I finally finished them!  And I love them!  

And as I predicted, Chris wants a pair for himself - good thing he can’t fit into mine.

 

I finally managed to spin a decent fingering-weight yarn!  And it’s prettier in person than it is in the pictures…the color is much more beauteous.